- SAM: Welcome back to episode seven
of our race to claim the most train stations in Taiwan.
Here's the state of the game.
Right now, Mike and I are behind on stations
with 72 compared to Ben and Adam's 125.
The good news for us though
is that we're way ahead on chips with 130
versus Ben and Adam's paltry 38.
That's in part because Ben and Adam spent
almost all their chips
trying to break through our wall around Taipei.
But they failed, meaning now they've had
to spend almost an entire day retreating to Kaohsiung,
while Mike and I claim new stations
and fortify others. But all is not lost for them.
Due to some tricky challenges and slow routes,
Mike and I haven't been able to make progress
as quickly as we'd hoped.
And now, Ben and Adam are only a few hours outside Kaohsiung,
which means soon they'll be back in the game
and itching to earn some chips.
- I think we're sort of back in business.
- Yeah, we just gotta get to Kaohsiung
and see what the board looks like by the time we get there.
- Let's go get on the platform, Ben.
- BEN: Yep.
Adam.
- ADAM: Yeah?
- BEN: You know about this guy?
- ADAM: Tell me about this guy. - BEN: This guy is...
he is the mascot of Taiwanese 7-Eleven.
He's a dog alien.
- He's a dog alien? - BEN: He's a dog alien.
- I would argue that he looks more like
sort of like a little rainbow guy.
- BEN: Well, he's a dog alien.
- Okay, great.
- BEN: Let's go to Kaohsiung.
- Dude, let's finally get to Kaohsiung.
Geez.
At long last, Benjamin.
- It's not the fastest train in the world, but...
it'll get us there.
- Okay, so we're nearing the end of this line now.
We do have a 45% multiplier
around there. - Yeah.
- We get off at, I think...
Zhuifen. - Zhuifen.
- And then we have to take like a bus.
The truth is we don't really have good options
for adding to our balance that much.
Because we have a multiplier,
but we don't have a very high balance.
We have a Steal,
but they don't have a very high balance.
- And there's not much else nearby.
- There's not much else nearby.
So, I don't really know what we want to do after this,
but we can cross that bridge when we get to it.
- That's the way the game's been going.
- Yep.
- Welcome to Zhuifen.
- Looks like our bus is in...
...10 minutes.
- Oh, perfect timing.
- It actually says free.
- Taiwan! - Is Google right?
- That's very cool.
Look at the station.
There's one. - SAM: This one I hope.
Bus.
- Alright, well...
it looks like they got off their train
and they're headed to that multiplier after all.
- (cracks up) That seems crazy to me.
- It does seem crazy.
- That multiplier will only be worth 28 chips now
because they shed so much of their budget.
I don't know why you would get rid of over half your budget
on a not very useful line
before you go for the multiplier.
- I don't know what their next moves are.
- No. - They're playing so weird.
I got no clue.
- We'll see.
- Okay, we've arrived. - Xiexie!
It's this! - Yes, this.
- Ohhh!
I thought this was like a preschool or a kindergarten.
- SAM: Hopefully not.
Alright, welcome to the Rainbow Village.
- Oh, a Rainbow Village. - Yeah.
- Cool.
Alright.
Rainbow Village.
Our challenge worth a 45% boost.
Pitch a painting.
- SAM: Pitch a painting.
Taichung's rainbow village
is one of Taiwan's largest and longest running art projects,
originally painted to prevent the neighborhood's demolition
in the 1950s.
Amy has selected five paintings in the Taichung Rainbow Village,
and included photographs of them.
One player will look at the photos, select one,
and describe it to their partner.
That player must then go into the Taichung Rainbow Village
and find the painting.
If they are mistaken, they may reattempt one time.
Otherwise, the challenge has failed.
Do you wanna search or do you wanna...
- Yeah, you wanna? - describe?
- I'll pick the painting this time and describe.
Yeah? - That works.
- So I have the five photos here.
I'm gonna pick one and describe one.
Oh, there's one I wanna do, but I don't think it's a smart move.
Okay, are you ready for a description?
- SAM: Yes. Let me write down some notes.
- It looks like a jester.
White body with blue outline.
Eh, looking upwards.
Yellow crown... or jester hat.
It has what looks like a tail or a sword
coming out from the right hand side or its left hand side.
It does have two rosy cheeks.
- SAM: Do you have any context for what material it's on?
- It's on a white wall.
And it looks like it has a little bit of red brick
down one side. - SAM: Okay.
Do you have a sense of how big it is?
- No. - SAM: No?
- I really don't.
- Okay, do you think I should go try?
- I think you should go try.
- SAM: Alright, I'll do my best.
Thank you. - Okay, good luck.
- SAM: That's a good description.
Alright, based on the description,
I feel like I should be able to get this.
There's only so much white wall.
- Oh, hello there. I didn't see you.
It's just us. We're still on the train.
But we're getting closer.
- And that means that for only a little bit longer...
we remain in...
the Snack Zone, baby.
- We are going to be trying
scallop flavored Lay's potato chips.
- Another seafood flavored chip.
- I thought they were really cool.
Ooh.
Get a whiff of that scallop.
- No. No.
Nope.
- We're one for two with the seafood chips.
Which is frankly better than I thought we would do.
Right now, they're still working on that challenge.
- Look, they were given an enormous advantage
of having two thirds of a day
where we were completely out of the game,
and I would argue that they squandered it.
- I would say they've pretty much biffed it.
- SAM: Here's a white wall.
Wait, I mean...
That's a court jester.
I don't see...
Michael thought there was red brick.
But everything else matches.
I think that's gotta be it.
It sure looks like it.
I'm a little concerned because that kind of seemed
a lot easier than I think it was supposed to be.
- Do you want me to remind you what I described?
- SAM: I mean, okay, look.
I got a tail going to the right.
It's looking up. It's got a yellow crown.
- Yeah. - SAM: It's got a blue outline.
- Yeah. - SAM: It's on a white wall.
It's got red dimples.
- That's all, that's all I told you.
- SAM: Okay, I'm gonna lock it in then.
- Okay.
That... - SAM: That's it.
That was... - Oh, well done.
Nice, easy 45% boost.
Look at the other one I was gonna show you.
How fun does this guy look?
- SAM: It looks like Ben.
- That's what I thought!
- Okay, well...
- Well, they have completed their 45% multiplier.
I mean, it only got 'em like 28 chips.
- Congratulations, Sam and Mike, on your brand new chips.
- We need to generate a new challenge.
- MIKE: Oh, yes. - And where that goes...
- MIKE: Where does this land?
- Where that goes matters a whole lot.
- Oh! - It's also in the north.
Another in the northeast. - Perfect.
- That's crazy. - Which is at least defended,
so they're not getting it.
- It is a 65 chipper.
It's like east of Taipei, so not very useful to us.
- They have 38,
but they're going to two challenges in Kaohsiung.
They're getting close. - Yeah.
- They'll probably be there within the hour.
- Okay.
Okay, well, the immediate options are
we head south and try and flip some of their stations.
And then we can cut back.
- Yeah...?
- Or do you want to go up on the express train
and try and solidify - Maybe?
- some of our stations? - Maybe?
We could go to the Steal right now.
- I like that. - We could go to the Steal.
- 'Cause that's also a form of defense.
- Because yes.
'Cause we don't want them having the Steal.
Because I think it's gonna mess with our endgame strategy
if they have an accessible Steal.
- Oh, we'd be so mad if that happened.
- 'Cause it's right on the high-speed line.
- Yeah.
- It's easy for them to break through on the high-speed line.
We have no defenses on the high-speed line.
- Yeah.
Are you thinking of the one in Taipei or—
- No, there's the one that's closer.
- MIKE: Yeah, okay.
- There's the one...
It's up there. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- We could maybe consider taking the low-speed,
bolstering the low-speed.
- On an express train.
- Hi, everyone.
- It's us.
And you know where we are.
We're in the Snack Zone.
You know that we're still in the Snack Zone.
Today on The Snack Zone, we are going to be trying
Crispy Gummy.
- Crispy Gummy? - I don't know.
I don't— I do not know what this is,
but I saw that it was called Crispy Gummy,
and I thought that is an oxymoron.
I would love to find out what it tastes like.
- Yeah.
Okay, it looks very strange. - It smells weird.
- I don't know that I would call it crispy.
- Disappointed.
Alrighty.
- Ben...
We are here in Kaohsiung.
- Your boys have made it to Kaohsiung.
- We did it!
- And let me tell you, we are hungry for chips.
And good news.
There's a challenge very close.
- Yep. It's about a 15-minute walk.
And there we can receive 40 wonderful chips.
You know, we had so many chips on the train,
but they were not the chips that I craved.
- BEN: No, those chips,
I don't crave those chips so much.
- No. - BEN: The scallop ones.
- Have we exited the Snack Zone, by the way, Ben?
Do we need to play that outro?
- BEN: Oh, I guess we are now officially out of it.
- Folks, we've left the Snack Zone.
- BEN: Sorry.
- And we're in the winning the game zone.
- BEN: Yeah.
It's probably a better zone for us to be in
at this point. - Yeah.
They're back at the station now.
I genuinely have no idea what they're gonna do now.
- BEN: No.
- We have to make sure we have the timings right
for our master plan tomorrow.
- Fighter jet. - Yeah.
I don't know if you've described the master plan.
Our finishing move, I guess is what it is.
- Our finishing move is we go back to the east.
Alright, let's take a minute to explain
Mike and my's finishing move.
Basically it all centers around
this section of rail on the east coast.
When Ben and Adam tried to break through to Taipei,
they were putting the minimum claim on the stations to conserve chips.
That means that there are a ton of stations
they only hold by one chip,
making them very easy for us to flip.
So the plan is we spend today and the start of tomorrow
fortifying everything west of Taipei,
the stuff that Ben and Adam could have reasonably get to
before the game ends.
That way, we'll slow down how fast they can flip the stations
they have easy access to to their side.
Then, when there's just enough time left on the final day,
we shoot down the east coast,
quickly flipping all their weak stations to us
and hopefully securing our victory.
I think for now what we know
is this line that we're about to go down
is by far our most vulnerable.
So...
- Reinforce it.
- We need to reinforce it to have any shot tomorrow.
- That will protect us from them.
Flipping a lot tomorrow. - Yeah. Mhm.
We're dropping fives on the way, right?
- MIKE: Right.
- Or fours I guess, but you know.
- MIKE: Yeah.
Fours to get 'em up to fives.
- We're dumping.
We're taking a huge old dump on this line.
- MIKE: Is this it? - SAM: Maybe?
- Yep, 2B.
Made it.
- Oh, look at these buildings.
Cool as hell.
I'll get us set up.
Right over there.
Alright.
- Alright.
Our first challenge...
- (laughs) Of the day. - ...of the day.
Here we go.
- Please be doable.
- Street art scavenger hunt.
- SAM: Street art scavenger hunt.
Weiwuying is famous for
its massive, colorful street art murals.
Amy has attached a list of characters
she wants you to find,
hidden somewhere in the neighborhood.
You must find at least three of them.
You have 15 minutes.
- Ooh.
Alright, we've got:
Goldfish.
Froggy.
- Elephants. - Elephants.
- Radish guy. - Radish guy.
And then this is interesting 'cause this is like on a box.
- Yeah, it's like an electrical box.
Well, I guess we better just start looking.
- Start looking, alright.
Wait, is that the—
Was there a goldfish?
No.
- BEN: No, that's a different goldfish.
- ADAM: Wrong goldfish.
Just double check that nothing is here.
'Cause that would be tricky, you know?
- BEN: Yeah, yeah.
I don't think so.
- ADAM: No, okay.
- Oh, I see the radish guy.
- ADAM: Wait, what? Oh!
It's the gingerbread guy.
There's one.
This street art is really cool.
- It's cool. This whole block is awesome.
- ADAM: This rocks.
Alright. Not a ton on this...
- Frog. - ADAM: Oh, frog, nice.
Froggy.
That's two.
Alright, we still got plenty of time left.
- Alright, we're at Taichung.
Ideally, we want a train in 10 minutes,
but we need a seat reservation for it,
so we gotta move fast
to get to the ticket... desk. - MIKE: Ticket booth.
- Yeah.
[Reservation] for this train.
Thank you. - MIKE: Thank you.
- Okay. Seat's confirmed.
- ADAM: Alright, let's stop at this block.
But so far it's been one per block.
- BEN: I don't see nothing.
- ADAM: I don't see—
It doesn't seem like there's a lot on this one.
Okay, let's keep going.
- Is that the owl?
- ADAM: Is that the owl? Where?
Oh! Is that the owl?
No, I think the owl's a different color.
- BEN: That's a different owl?
- ADAM: No, different owl.
- That's a different ass owl.
- ADAM: It's a different owl, dude.
- There's a lot of fish on—
- ADAM: A lot of fish. Okay.
I think good chance that fish is here.
But it's a specific fish.
- BEN: I don't see him.
- ADAM: I don't see him either.
I am not... able to match...
...the fish.
- There's koi on this one, but I don't think they're—
Is it those goldfish?
- ADAM: Could be?
Oh, oh no! It's— yeah!
It's the one at the top of that.
Top of the green one. See it?
- BEN: Yeah.
- ADAM: There's our boy.
Easy, done. Challenge complete.
- BEN: 40 chips in the bank.
- ADAM: No problem!
- BEN: Now we're back in it.
- Ugh, okay.
They're successful.
- Alright, Ben, we need to generate the next challenge.
- Next challenge.
- It's a Steal.
- Steal. Where is it?
It's all the way up there. - It's all the way up there.
- It's another Steal.
- MIKE: Where?
- It's another northeast one.
There's such a cluster in the northeast now.
- I know! It's advantageous to us.
- I think. - We e—
- But it makes it even more attractive for them
to try to break through up there.
- Oh, to shoot through the high-speed rail
to get up there first.
They have dominated the south.
They protected it.
We're actually not even considering challenging it.
- Yeah. - So...
why would they stick around down there?
They're gonna shoot through.
- I'm stressed. (Mike laughs)
- Well... - Well, no use to us.
I think we should just go try and snag
the other Kaohsiung challenge before the end of the day.
- Fastest way seems to be to just walk back
to the train station we came from.
- MIKE: Do we still want this current one we're going after?
- I think so, to get it off the map.
You know, 'cause if they do a 40% Steal
and then a 50% Steal...
- Yeah... it's over.
Okay. Here we go.
We are dropping chips along the way.
We have a very... defensive offense.
- ...Yes.
Also a defensive defense.
- (chuckles) Yeah.
- We are back in the lead on chips, I think.
- I didn't think that would happen for a while.
- Where are they going?
They're spending chips somewhere.
I think they're going back north.
Maybe they're fortifying that low-speed route.
So at the top of that line is the Steal.
They're gonna be there in probably like an hour.
A little more than an hour.
- BEN: I mean, we could reinfor— we're about to ride
actually a bunch of stations.
- We're about to ride a bunch of— it's true.
We're about to ride a bunch of stations here.
- BEN: Yeah.
- I don't hate the idea of fortifying them.
- BEN: It would certainly make a Steal hurt less
if that's what they're going for next.
Honestly, maybe weakening that Steal
could really hurt them.
- Yeah, 'cause they're probably counting on that Steal
to get more chips.
- BEN: Yeah. - I like that, Ben.
I think that's actually kinda smart.
I just do wanna bring up,
I'm thinking about the endgame.
Them fortifying both of these is a better move
than what we thought they were doing
when they were just fortifying one.
- BEN: Yeah.
- ADAM: Okay, let's sit down and really think this through, Ben.
We have a little bit of time before our train.
- Okay.
- It's like, their strategy at this point in the game
has to be that in the last part of the last day,
they're gonna flip a ton of our stuff and take it.
- Yeah.
- So we just need to prevent that happening.
I think we do reinforce.
I think we do this challenge.
Depending on what comes up next,
I think there's a decent argument:
We go up to Taipei.
By the way, we grab these high-speed stations
that no one's gone to yet.
And I think we try to gobble up the earning opportunities here
to make it hard for them to pull off
some big move at the end.
- Okay.
So we're reinforcing up to...
- Yeah, we're gonna reinforce fully on these seven stations.
- I think I feel good about that.
- SAM: Okay. Welcome to Miaoli.
So I was just checking.
It looks like they're starting to reinforce
down in Kaohsiung with fives.
They're probably dumping
'cause they know we're about to go to a Steal.
But on the other hand, they're dumping chips
in an area that we have no intention of going to.
- Right. They don't know that.
So we will— Okay.
Let's do this Steal, and then we'll figure out
what we think their possible moves are for tomorrow.
- Yeah. That will really matter.
I mean, things are getting tense and complicated.
(Mike snickers) Ugh.
- There's too many options.
- I'd like to say it's getting fun. It is getting fun.
- Too many possiblities. - Oh wait.
I think this is our train actually.
We're just taking it one stop.
- MIKE: For aesthetic purposes.
I don't know what you're carrying in your bag
that thumps that heavily every time.
- Well, I put the heaviest stuff at the bottom, you know.
That's how you pack your backpack for your back.
- MIKE: Which is very smart.
But it makes me think you're carrying a whole bunch
of gold bullion bricks. Your whole rock collection.
- Well, how am I gonna work out each night
without my weights?
- MIKE: Without your barbells, dumbbells.
- Yeah, I gotta stay yoked.
- Ah, if you had and leaned forward,
it'd be such a dramatic shot.
Gotta get that smoothly.
- Okay, it's Steal time. We gotta lock in.
- We've been...
I don't wanna jinx it.
I'm not gonna say anything.
- SAM: Past performance does not indicate future results.
- It does not.
I'm locked in.
- Let's go see what this challenge is.
- They're continuing to go up and fortify.
I'm not doing this challenge until they do the Steal.
- No, I mean, we either wait until they do the Steal,
or pass it, but... - Yeah.
- We don't wanna just do this
and then have them immediately steal it.
- No. - So...
seemingly...
we just need to get over that way.
- ADAM: Look Ben, we're at the Kaohsiung American School.
- BEN: I feel so proud.
- We did have the envelope at one point, but...
- MIKE: We saw a round thing from the train off to the left.
- SAM: Yep. How do we get there?
- Probably down here somewhere.
- SAM: This kind of explains why high-speed rail is so expensive.
- MIKE: Oh, yes.
- SAM: When you need hundreds of miles of something this big.
- Elevated concrete.
- SAM: But look at how busy they were.
It was probably like 1,000 people on each train
every 15 minutes. - Oh my god.
And not just commuting within communities.
Halfway across this island, between large cities.
- SAM: On downside though, it basically means
that Ben and Adam can get from where they are
to Taipei in like 90 minutes tomorrow.
- I know.
- SAM: They can jump up fast.
- Here we are.
- SAM: Here's the round thing.
- MIKE: That is a big round thing.
- SAM: What do you think we'd do with it?
- MIKE: It looks like they were building a massive lighthouse,
but only got three stories.
- SAM: Probably something cultural or something.
I don't know.
- Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
Our last challenge of the day.
Here we go.
Estimate the diameter of the Hakka Roundhouse.
- SAM: Estimate the diameter of the Hakka Roundhouse.
The Hakka Roundhouse is a perfect circle.
Each teammate will take turns
estimating the diameter of the Hakka Roundhouse
in feet, using nothing other than their body.
You may choose to take either teammate's guess
or the mean average of the two as your final guess.
If your final guess is not within 20% of the true diameter,
then this challenge in failed.
- I assume this is the Hakka Roundhouse.
- SAM: Do you want to go first again, or...
- (sighs) I'll go second.
- SAM: Okay. - You take us away.
- So how about you go behind that shed over there,
and I'll come get you when I'm done.
- Okay.
- SAM: Okay.
Part of me is tempted to be smart and do math and all
and try to measure the circumference somehow.
But diameter...
I feel like I should be able to just see from here...
...it goes to here roughly.
And then I can figure out
where the other side goes, right?
Can see that it goes basically to the edge of this.
How long are my feet?
So like, I think about an inch.
Almost an inch.
That's longer than an inch.
I can think about a ruler.
I feel like my feet are almost a foot.
It might be even more than a foot.
Okay, I'm gonna count footsteps at least.
Okay, here.
One, two,
three, four, five...
- ADAM: Ben, I'm seeing something very interesting far in the distance.
- Yep. There's some big stuff over there.
- ADAM: Oh, hell yeah, dude.
- Okay.
Well, it's something with those guys.
I mean, look at this stuff here too.
- ADAM: Yeah, it's crazy.
Alright, Benjamin.
- Evidently we have arrived.
We have the challenge right here. Would you like to hear it, Adam?
- ADAM: I would love to hear what the challenge is, Ben.
- Test your luck at the Dragon and Tiger Pagodas.
- SAM: Test your luck at the Dragon and Tiger Pagodas.
The Dragon and Tiger Pagodas
are one of the most popular tourist destinations in Kaohsiung.
It said that it's bad luck to enter through the tiger's mouth
and good luck to enter through the dragon.
Team members must split up
and make their way to the top of both pagodas,
where they will play a game of rock, paper, scissors.
The dragon player must win the game
without any prior collusion.
If the dragon player does not win, he must switch pagodas
and wait 30 minutes to try again.
- ADAM: I certainly do not want to do this challenge right now.
- No.
I think it looks like they are gonna go for the Steal.
And so, we just wait 'em out.
Wait till they do the Steal.
They succeed, they fail, whatever.
Once they're done, then we can do this.
And these chips will be pretty safe for the time being.
- ADAM: I am in no rush, Ben. We are in the lead.
- Okay, well then let's just go hang out
and see how they do.
- 143, 144, 145...
Well I got 145 of my feet.
Still a question of how long are my feet?
I'm really tempted by the theory
that these are one foot long.
My foot is just slightly longer than them.
And I was thinking my foot looks slightly longer than one foot.
These are one foot, like 5% longer than that.
What's 5% on 145?
150? Does this give me 150 vibes?
Kinda.
I buy it.
I think my guess is 150.
Okay. That's my guess.
My guess is complete.
- Should we just guess?
No, do I have to?
- SAM: I think go for it.
- Yeah, I'm just teasing. Okay!
There are only a few things I remember from high school:
E = mc², whatever that means,
and I do remember the circumference.
It's 2πR, R being the radius.
And then obviously the other way of measuring it
is to measure in a straight line.
Now of course, we can't go straight through the building,
which would be the easiest,
but we can line it up nicely with this tile.
This reach is about eight inches across.
So that looks like a foot.
- 12 inches.
- I'm Canadian, so I was gonna use meters,
but Sam will probably have put it in feet,
and we have a really good measuring tool
of about 12 inches here.
Okay, let's start with the straight up measurement
of the diameter.
One, two, three, four, five...
- Well, folks...
...we're having our boba.
Well, I'm having boba. Yours is not boba.
- No, it's a milk tea.
They're there. - They're there.
They're at the Steal.
We wish them the worst of luck.
- We hope you fail.
- I hope you blow it, boys.
- Blow it, blow it, blow it.
- MIKE: 70, 71, 72, 73, 74...
75, 76, 77, 78...
seven, eight, nine, 150...
...and I think that's it.
I'm not gonna measure the circumference
and do the math
to figure out the diameter.
I just think the chance of getting it wrong is higher
because I don't have a proper measuring tool.
So, that's our guess, 149.
Let's see what Sam says.
Alright, Sam.
- Alright, let's go in front.
(Mike grunts)
- Okay.
Alright, I think I can get unlocked now.
- What was your guess?
- 149 feet.
(Sam snickers breathily) What was your guess?
- 150 feet.
- We're clearly within 20% of each other.
- Well, yes, but...
- We don't know if we're within 20% of the correct answer.
- And I don't think we want to know right now.
- No.
- I think we want to wait. - But—
- I would bet that they're at their challenge...
- Waiting for us. - Waiting for us.
- This is like yesterday.
- And we're waiting for them.
I mean, this could literally go on forever, but...
we can't let it go on forever.
- No, 'cause they have the lead.
- But we can— we could theoretically let this go on until...
- Oh, the 1:00 train that we want to catch.
- Until this, yeah, whatever train we need.
- Out of Taipei.
- To go do action on the East Coast.
- Yeah. - Okay.
Well, here's the thing.
We've just missed the last train that we can take out of here.
So... - We might as well wait.
- Let's go post up,
and we can strategize a little bit more
about what to do right now.
- Now it's a waiting game.
Dang. That's a big koi fish.
- Oh yeah. I saw some of 'em jumping.
- Wow.
- How about I just text "What's taking you so long?"
- Yeah, sure. Hang on.
Let's get a selfie with this sunset.
- ADAM: Ben, I just got a text.
I don't know if it's from them.
- Okay, well, let's hear it.
- ADAM: It's— They said, "What's taking you so long?"
- Yeah, I bet.
I bet you're wondering.
Do the Steal, boys.
We are in the lead. We are in no rush.
We can wait for as loooong as we want.
Hop to it, boys.
- Okay, so, how long do we wanna force a stalemate?
- I think we break it right before—
at the most opportune moment, right before our train.
But I don't think we should wait for a late train.
I think— - Probably.
- I think we need to go offensive. - Yeah.
I don't think we could let this stalemate go beyond
9:10 am or something. - No.
- And even then, we would need a very specific sequence
of events that is planned.
- We need time to complete the challenges to gain the chips.
- Yeah. I tend to agree with you.
Let's do some research
and try to think about the permutations tomorrow.
- ADAM: They're still waiting, Ben.
- Still no word from our boys.
I mean, this might be a game of chicken.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong.
I think time is more precious for them because...
they have to flip more stations.
Right? - ADAM: Right, right?
- Okay. We've looked into it, and...
we think that we want to at least leave it to see
if they break the stalemate first thing in the morning.
We can skip the first train and the next one is only
like 10 minutes after. - Okay.
- So I, at least, maybe overnight they think over it.
- Let them sweat. - Yeah.
- ADAM: I feel crazy!
- Maybe we're— maybe we both think we're in the better position,
and someone is wrong. But I—
- ADAM: I think that the positions
that we're in game-wise are pretty equal,
but I think that they have more interest in speeding things up.
I think. - I think.
- ADAM: I think we have—
- They're messing with our heads, but it's not gonna work.
- We're really putting a squeeze on them.
- Yeah. But now, it's 5:30 pm.
So we'll see you back here tomorrow morning.
- The morning. - Good night.
- Well, it looks like they are just stalemating us
until the end of the day.
So, we are gonna end our day here.
That's a wrap on today.
Oh wait, just kidding.
You thought we left the Snack Zone? Wrong!
We're still in the Snack Zone.
We never left the Snack Zone, and we never will.
- I have been trying to Snack Zone this
the whole time we've been here.
- Yeah, every time the camera turns off at night,
Adam goes and finds this.
- This is Taiwanese popcorn chicken.
This is my favorite Taiwanese food.
That's so good, dude.
- It really is.
- Taiwan, lowkey undefeated.
- Absolutely undefeated. - On snack food.
- Absolutely undefeated.
And that's a Snack Zone fact.
Alright. - Good night!
- Good night. We will see you here tomorrow morning
when those cowards finally do their challenge.
- Three, two, one.
It's 7:30. - The final day!
- Welcome back. - It's good to be back.
- Today's the day we're gonna win.
Okay, so they're still at their challenge.
- As are we. - As are we.
- In a stalemate.
- There's a train in 15 minutes, north,
and the next one after that is not
for 45 minutes after that.
- The question is, what do we want to do?
- We've already invested this time.
What's 45 minutes more?
- Yeah, I think because we decided
at the end of yesterday,
to wait and hold the stalemate and see if they break.
- Yeah.
- We gotta do that now too.
- Well, Benjamin... - Good morning.
- It's 7:30 am.
I have to believe that they will do their challenge now.
- Look. We—
All we can do is continue to wait,
because time is on our side.
This is— it's the final day, and we are remaining the lead.
I think that they need to nail everything today.
- Yeah.
- If they want to flip enough stations to gain the lead.
So...
...we're happy to wait 'em out.
- If they want to wait where they are
until the end of the game,
I'm happy to wait as well.
No problem for me.
- They're— I think they'd be happy to hold the stalemate all day.
- They— I mean, they certainly would be happy to hold it all day.
The first problem for them is we can time the end
potentially in a useful way for us.
We wanna leave us just enough time
to do what we need to do
to prevent them from doing more.
- And we want it all to happen right before the end of the day.
- Right.
How about we give them,
I don't know, 30 or so minutes
to break the stalemate, miss this first train.
And then maybe in about 30 minutes,
if they haven't broken it, we go to negotiations.
We call them up and are like, I don't know.
- Yeah, that's fair.
- Maybe we try to convince them that we flip a coin or something.
- Yeah, great.
Great.
- Cool.
Alright, so for now we wait.
Ben and Adam, I hope you're getting antsy.
- They still haven't done it. What are they doing?
- BEN: I don't know. - What are they doing?
- BEN: I don't know.
- What are they doing?
- I mean, look. - Am I going crazy?
We are in the lead, right?
- We are in the lead by a decent amount.
They are— They're continuing to wait us out.
I sort of thought that they were gonna finish it
right at the very start of this morning, but...
- (laughs) What is going on? - But it's been 15 minutes now,
and still nothing.
Are we wrong? Are we miscalculating this?
- SAM: We'll never break the stalemate 'cause look.
We got some swans to watch.
- MIKE: Look at those... - SAM: Those swans.
- MIKE: Their red beaks.
- SAM: There are ducks.
- MIKE: Look at that beautiful duck. - SAM: Look at those ducks.
I could stay here all day looking at these ducks.
- That is a beautiful duck.
- ADAM: Ducks. - BEN: Ducks.
One of those ducks was eating a cigarette.
- ADAM: Mmm, that's good duck food.
- I'm not— We're not going crazy?
- I mean, maybe I'm just wrong.
I don't see how we're wrong here.
- No, I think we're right.
We're in the lead.
They have to move eventually.
- But I think they'll break.
I think they know
that I will wait here for hours.
And I will, and I will.
- Well folks, I'm gonna level with you.
As we film this, we don't know
how many episodes are gonna be in this season.
So if there are eight episodes,
that means that you're watching this now,
which means the next episode is the finale.
But it also means that I don't know what happened in the episode.
I don't know what the cutoff was.
But you know what I do know?
- I'm stressed.
- I know that that you're stressed, and I also know
that we're all enormously appreciative
of the fact that you watched on Nebula.
- You know what I like to do when I'm stressed?
- What's that? - Listen to my own voice.
- Totally. - Yeah.
- SAM: On the Layover podcast. - ADAM: Mm!
- SAM: 'Cause I listen to it, and I'm like,
"Wow, that's such a good point that Sam made.
"And actually, what he did that looked kinda silly?
It actually wasn't his fault at all."
- Totally. - It was the world's fault.
- Right, right. - Or Ben and Adam's fault.
- Well, I imagine it's soothing to you to listen to your own voice
explain to you that you did nothing wrong.
- Right, 'cause I'm like, he's so right.
- Right, right, right. - Yeah.
- And he's got a great voice. And you're going,
"I love this guy." - Right, right.
- And if you don't find Sam's voice soothing,
which might be the case for some of you,
you could also check out another show that we've made:
Abolish Everything!
Abolish Everything! is a live comedy debate show
that we film right here in New York City,
and we film it and put it on Nebula.
Season two has just come out.
I'm in it. Adam's in it.
And it's really fun. It's a great show.
We love making it, and again,
it might help you sort of relax and unwind
more than Sam's voice. Or less. I don't know—
- People do love using Sam's voice.
I have a friend who, before I worked for Wendover,
was like, "This is what I listen to, to go to sleep."
- Weird. - Yeah.
- I can't imagine how you could fall asleep
with such energizing logistics, but—
- Yeah, no, I know.
- Anyway, see you in the finale!
- Bye! - Bye!